When I first decided that I was going to write it was not as easy of a choice as one might think but I knew that was what I wanted to do. However, that was about all I did know. I did not know how to write for an audience nor did I have a [...]

I’d like to share a story about a girl I went to school with more than two and a half decades ago. She was, to us teenagers (so worldly wise we were at the ripe old age of around fourteen), considered rather odd. Her name was, let’s say, Anna.

Long long ago, in the days before the Internet, a mouse was something that made maidens hitch their hooped skirts up and scream. Today that little mechanical wonder is attached to what is arguably the biggest conversation killer of our time. I’m talking real live face to face conversations here, not chats or IM’s.
My family’s [...]

We were just sitting on the warm grass, side by side, enjoying the sunshine. Little did I know my dog Pip was going to teach me something very important that lazy afternoon.